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The resulting picture might appear a maze of restless confusions and contradictions, but it is more true to life than a portrait of an artificially contrived order.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
The picture is the more treacherous when it misrepresents the facts of American life.
It is not my intention in this narrative to picture myself as a helpless victim moored to the rock of experience and left to the buffetings of chance.
His delightful picture of society and institutions is filled with warm detail that brings the period vividly to life.
If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.
That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.
All I want is a picture -- with a few lines.
`` The reason you are in the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can produce.
`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.
The result is a color picture of the specimen where the primary colors correspond to the three different ultraviolet wavelengths.
The total picture is only seen by the camera which integrates the many sector scans over the entire 90-degree rotation period.
Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.
On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??
Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.
In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.
and it is as if the only stable relation left among the different parts of the picture is the ambivalent and ambiguous one that each has with the surface.
In the first picture ( 9a ) the knife is just beginning to advance into the inclined surface which was left from the previous chip formation.
Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.
The time of the motion picture is fixed absolutely.
Time is built into the motion picture, which cannot exist without time.
The `` moving '' picture of the train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, more intense than a still picture of the same subject, but the difference is really one of degree ; ;

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This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.
For each picture frame, the 6502 writes graphics commands for the DVG into a defined area of RAM ( the vector RAM ), and then asks the DVG to draw the corresponding vector image on the screen.
The central dogma of molecular biology where genetic material is transcribed into RNA and then translated into protein, despite being an oversimplified picture of molecular biology, still provides a good starting point for understanding the field.
For example, in the Schrödinger picture, there is a linear operator U with the property that if an electron is in state right now, then in one minute it will be in the state, the same U for every possible.
In calculus, this picture also gives a geometric proof of the derivative if one sets and interpreting b as an infinitesimal change in a, then this picture shows the infinitesimal change in the volume of an n-dimensional hypercube, where the coefficient of the linear term ( in ) is the area of the n faces, each of dimension
Maurice Elvey's Nelson – England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1919 ) has a symbolic sequence dissolving from a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm II to a peacock, and then to a battleship.
They found the sequence in the cliff below St. Helens, then just to the east at Siccar Point found what Hutton called " a beautiful picture of this junction washed bare by the sea ".
In the earlier picture, the examples were flat to the shinogi, then tapering to the blade.
Biograph retaliated for being frozen out of the Trust agreement by purchasing the patent to the Latham film loop, a key feature of virtually all motion picture cameras then in use.
LSRs in an MPLS network regularly exchange label and reachability information with each other using standardized procedures in order to build a complete picture of the network they can then use to forward packets.
For example, the BBC suggests program makers who are recording in 16: 9 frame their shots in a 14: 9 aspect ratio which is then broadcast for non-widescreen televisions with small black bars at the top and bottom of the picture, while owners of widescreen TV sets see the full 16: 9 picture.
He then sets out throughout the rest of the book to demonstrate the limitations of this conception, including, he argues, many traditional philosophical puzzles and confusions that arise as a result of this limited picture.
Flaherty then agreed to collaborate with F. W. Murnau on another South Seas picture, Tabu, but this combination proved even more volatile, and while Flaherty did contribute significantly to the story, the finished film is essentially Murnau's.
After the lengthy quarreling with Universal Studios over Brazil, Gilliam's next picture, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, cost around US $ 46 million, and then earned only about US $ 8 million in US ticket sales.
More geographically correct were Icelandic texts from about the same time, which presented a clear picture of the northern countries as experienced by Norse explorers: north of Iceland a vast, barren plain ( which we now know to be the Polar ice-cap ) extended from Biarmeland ( northern Russia ) east of the White Sea, to Greenland, then further west and south were, in succession, Helluland, Markland and Vinland.
Under the moral standards then enforced by the motion picture industry, their relationship had to be kept from public view.
His house was then weaker than it had been since Edward's succession, but a succession of deaths in 1055 – 57 completely changed the picture.
The frame synchronizer essentially takes a picture of each frame of incoming video and then immediately outputs it with the correct synchronization signals to match an existing video system.
" He then spent the summer with Whiteman's band in Hollywood in preparation for the shooting of a new talking picture, The King of Jazz.
In modern candles, the wick is constructed so that it curves over as it burns ( see picture on the right ), so that the end of the wick gets oxygen and is then consumed by fire — a self-trimming wick.
Cinematically, Anne of the Thousand Days took twenty years to reach the screen because its themes — adultery, illegitimacy, incest — were then unacceptable to the U. S. motion picture production code.
All of the polygons to be rendered are first sorted by the top y coordinate at which they first appear, then each row or scan line of the image is computed using the intersection of a scan line with the polygons on the front of the sorted list, while the sorted list is updated to discard no-longer-visible polygons as the active scan line is advanced down the picture.
Subsequently, Hoyle's picture was expanded during the 1960s by creative contributions by William A. Fowler, Alastair G. W. Cameron, and Donald D. Clayton, and then by many others.

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